Cartoon by Art Young, first published in The Masses in 1917 and later reprinted in Ammon Hennacy's autobiography.[5]

In 1919 Hennacy married his first wife, Selma Melms, under common law; two years later they hiked around the United States passing through all 48 of the contiguous states. He settled down in 1925, buying a farm and raising his two children. In 1931, he began social work in Milwaukee and organised one of the first social worker unions. He refused to use force or self-defense even when threatened during his work, preferring instead to use nonresistance. During this time, he also refused to sign up for the draft for World War II and declared that he would not pay taxes. He also reduced his tax liability by taking up a lifestyle of simple living. Between 1942 and 1953, Hennacy worked as a migrant farm labourer in the southwest United States.

In 1961, Hennacy moved to Utah and organised the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City. While in Utah, Hennacy fasted and picketed in protest of the death penalty and the use of taxes in war. Following a divorce from Selma in 1964, Hennacy married his second wife, Joan Thomas, in 1965. In the same year he left the Roman Catholic Church, though he continued to call himself a "non-church Christian".[6] He wrote about his reasons for leaving and his thoughts on Catholicism, which included his belief that "Paul spoiled the message of Christ" (see Jesusism). This essay and others were published as The Book of Ammon in 1965, which has been praised for its "diamonds of insight and wisdom" but criticised for its rambling style.[7]

The Book of Ammon (1965) Ammon Hennacy Publications, Salt Lake City (lengthened version of The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist, includes the years 1955 to 1964). Reprinted by Wipf and Stock, Eugene, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60899-053-5. Complete e-text

^Coy, Patrick G. (1988). A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker. Temple University Press. p. 142. The book does contain diamonds of insight and wisdom, and is important in its own right for the rich detail it offers not only into Hennacy's life but into the history of the movements he was a part of. Unfortunately, many of these diamonds are buried under the weight of more than five hundred pages of discursive ramblings.

^Coy, Patrick G. (1988). A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker. Temple University Press. p. 140. The One-Person Revolution of Ammon Hennacy

^Coy, Patrick G. (1988). A Revolution of the heart: essays on the Catholic worker. Temple University Press. p. 168. The One-Person Revolution of Ammon Hennacy